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23.03.2010 Opinions

Mysterious Fire Outbreaks In Ghana. How To Connect The Dots

By ICACA AfricaSankofa
Mysterious Fire Outbreaks In Ghana. How To Connect The Dots
23.03.2010 LISTEN

How many major fire outbreaks have we had in Ghana in this and the past year? Apart from Scientific explanation to what might have been the cause of most of them, have you wondered about certain explanations that beats human understanding?

Statistics of fireoutbreaks : http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&q=ghana%20fire%20outbreaks

Readers, in order for you to understand this article very well, we want to bring your attention to a very disheartening human attribute and a characteristic that many Ghanaians are cultivating of late. That is about citizens' inability and deliberate ability not to voice their concerns honestly; or, and to not tell or say it as it is to superiors or people in authority. We do not know whether it is out of fear, hypocrisy or is it a new style of praise singing.
For example, junior staff in a company suspects and see their boss cheating with a married woman and they don't say anything. Students in a University suspect a lecturer to be having an affair with a female student and they do not say anything. Members of a religious organization (church, mosque, shrine) suspect and know definately of cheating, dictatorial ways of their leader, but who is bold to challenge him/her?

Look at our political parties, few party financiers, party executives and some so-called founders have cringed to power without allowing real democracy to take place. When some few members try to voice their concerns, they are branded as “too known”.

The need for people to express themselves freely without fear of reprisals in any social and political discourse is very important for the smooth functioning of any true democracy all over the world. In Ghana, this truth is stretched to the limit that we are compelled to write about this.

Looking at the way a young man in Ghana who is reported to have voiced his personal opinion on a Valentine Day Fire outbreak is being subjected to public rebuking, serving prison terms, court hearing and this almost turning into inter-party conflict, we want the public to pay attention to what we are posting here to help everyone to connect the dots. Nothing happens in this world for no reason.

In our search to get enough information to help us understand what might be the possible cause of those mysterious fire outbreaks in Ghana, we have read, listened to and consulted many authoritative sources such as books, magazines, radio, inspirational tapes and one of our findings is reproduced here for your perusal. It is a story of someone's experience published on Thursday, 9th August, 2007 by a researcher on Spirituality in the United States of America by name Christopher Kimberly.

For the sake of educating our readers, we are writing a brief introduction about the Island Saint Lucia.

St. Lucia is an island in the Caribbean (West India). According to Wikipedia, the population of Saint Lucia is of mostly African descent (81% of the population). There is also a significant mixed minority representing 11.9%, with Indo-Caribbean or Indian groups at 2.4%, and a small ethnic European minority (descendants of French, British, and Irish colonists). Other or unspecified ethnicity accounts for 3.1%. There are small numbers of Greeks, Lebanese, Syrians, Italians, Chinese, North Americans, Portuguese, Germans.

OBEAH- Is the Caribbean equivalent of Black Magic. What the Nigerians called "Juju". Generally, it is the use of any spiritual means by a person, group, community or a nation to influence a person, community, or to change the natural course of any event or happening.


Here you are with the story. Please note that we will add our commentaries in parenthesis.

“ 'PAT BROWN SAYS...I AM A VICTIM OF OBEAH!' “

Having read Mrs Ingrid Bullard's article, “The Evil That Men Do,” I wish to expand on her deliberations and experience since, like herself, very close relatives, my children and myself, have been victims of obeah. African slaves introduced the culture of the witch doctor in the Caribbean.As time went on, that custom was commercialized into obeah or witchcraft.

In the early days when forests abound and infrastructural development unknown or scarce, demonic or Satanic spirits roamed the wilds at will, and the practice of invoking spirits was rampant. Those of us old enough can remember the “la ja blesse”, recognized with one human foot and one cow's foot, “pier beff,” and the “jan gagee'” both then household names.

Obeah, a thriving business, is rampant in our community. Obeah men and women engage in specific functions. They prescribe medicine, advise on court matters, love, marriage and so on, or practice evil. In the case of love affairs, one usually hears of “tying” one to another—”maway”. There was Joliff, a “gardeur” of Grace Vieux Fort. Joliff was priest, judge, magistrate, doctor, surgeon, marriage councilor, a “cure for all” to St. Lucians and other Caribbean islanders as well. Estaphan of Diamond Estate in Soufriere was another famous “gardeur.”

We learn from Christian teachings that Lucifer was exiled from the heavens and became earth bound because of competition with God and hence, Lucifer's main function on earth is to attract as may souls as possible in the battle between good and evil. Lucifer's main doctrine is that “existence is based on two extremes, good and evil. One phase compliments the other”. To Lucifer, “good” and “evil”, can be interpreted as “this” and “that”.

With their free will, souls wishing to achieve specific aims are normally enticed or encouraged by Satan. The fee is usually one's soul, which might appear unreal at the time, but once Satan's offer is accepted, the soul, in whatever time period, belongs to Satan, and will never again see the light of God. It is now being accepted that man is conceived a twin soul of positive and negative polarity, each going into the world fulfilling its karmic obligations. The twins may never meet one another in a lifetime. There are also fundamental natural laws and the matrix of universal motivation, neither of which subscribes to the bastardizing or the prostitution of one's karmic obligation in the pursuit of ill gotten gains from the Devil. The result is terminal. The loss of the soul.

Prominent names and businesses in St Lucia vanished after the patrons died usually under mysterious circumstances because of pacts with the Devil. Satanic gains may pass from one generation to another, but the same fate awaits all. There was a case in Castries when a mysterious fire totally destroyed a business empire. At the same time, in an inexplicable event, extensions of that business in another district were also destroyed by fire, to the extent that personal belongings, properties, including a residence, were also burnt to cinders.

The obeah culture was so prevalent that almost every business house in St. Lucia particularly in Castries, participated in one form or another. In effect, almost all the early business houses lasted for one generation only. After the Patron died, all vanished, and even their residences remain haunted. Laborians old enough may remember that when certain individuals who practiced evil disappeared, all the district had to do was mobilize people in the forests and the man found hanging was attributed to Satan claiming its soul.

It is a known fact that that obeah was so active in Guiana that the government was practical enough to legalize the practice. The chickens are now coming home to roost. A once clean and godly political party founded by returning University graduates in the early 60's, came to the conclusion that George Charles could no longer energize the necessary academic momentum to propel St. Lucia forward, and mechanisms, even enticing the Bousquet brothers to cross the floor, were put in place. George Charles was finally ousted with a vote of no confidence.

Things went well during the first term of the new government but greed, power, and possessiveness generated the desire to compliment what would finally become a dynasty with a demonic pact to ensure political continuity. There was no further loss at the polls, and even with a ten seven majority, the Labour Party could not maintain a two year transition to power. Satanic forces created infighting within the Labour camp with such intensity that the administration which never settled, collapsed miserably within two years, and the defeated political party was back for another fifteen years.

( DID WE HAVE A COINCIDENCE IN GHANA? )

It was sworn that no future Prime Minister would ever occupy the Prime Minister's residence at Vigie and, George Odlum would never occupy a seat in the House of Assembly of St. Lucia. Both predictions came true. Prime Ministers Louisy, Cenac, and Pilgrim never could occupy the Vigie residence, neither did Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, who never slept there. George's stint in the House of Assembly did not last a full term.

Coming back home, my deceased brother Clarence's sister who is still alive, was married to a well known St. Lucian who later resided in London. He became a well known “gardeur”, boasting that the first stop of a prominent St. Lucian politician from Heathrow Airport in London was at his Chambers for his bath. No matter whether the politician was on official business or pleasure, the limousine's first stop was at his premises.

Then in rapid succession, three the “gardeur's children died under mysterious circumstances. When asked to explain their causes of death, he coolly told me their souls were claimed by the devil because that illustrious politician did not pay his dues to the devil. Then I asked, why him and not the politician, he replied that he arranged the pact and must first pay. The politician would pay after his death. The political dynasty collapsed after thirty years because, in the height of success, demonic dues were either forgotten or not honoured.

(IS SOMEBODY READING THIS?)

The mysterious elimination of the Labour Party after an illustrious nine year stint surprised everyone. Almost all St. Lucians are aware of the extensive satanic momenta which contributed to that political catastrophe. Haitian obeah specialists were recruited. It is alleged that the buried dead were exhumed and body parts used to influence that election result and today, it is being said that a certain minister of government cannot sleep in his own home and has to find alternate accommodation night after night. Those who, according to a London “gardeur” never paid their dues to the devil, were granted a reprieve, only to see but never again to enjoy political power. And certainly, this affirmation is not by and act of God.

( DO YOU SEE A PARALLEL IN GHANA?)

The obeah man or woman man is in demand in all the formerly colonized Caribbean, the United States St. Croix, the nearest to Haiti where voodoo is god, in England, in Canada and in the French Protectorates. The emancipated slaves were left on their own to survive. The educational, social and economic agenda or equation did not include them, and missionaries or priests who came to them as saviors, while promising a direct route to heaven, applied spiritual propaganda to extract stipends from their measly earnings to enrich themselves. Hence, the poor ex-slaves only option was to rely on their obeah or voodoo gods to face an unfriendly new world.

One cannot deny or ignore the voodoo or obeah continuity. Where it hurts is when applied to destroy one another to the death. If the electronic and print media were to undertake an undercover exercise in obeah houses in St. Lucia, it would be surprising to them to discover the number of St. Lucians of every walk of life and social status, visiting obeah houses for one complaint or the other, be it business problems, marriage problems, lovers problems, promotion problems, sickness problems and all. The obeah culture is deep rooted. But the terminal product is the satisfaction of one's karmic obligations. Karmic law decrees that whatever one does comes back full circle to his doorsteps. Hence, a pact with the devil means that satanic forces will be at one's doorsteps demanding its pound of flesh. “


OUR COMMENTS:
Readers, we want to help you to arrive at a quality conclusion by posing these questions on politics in Ghana.

Do you think that our current and aspiring politicians are consulting or using “ways and means” to achieve their political ambitions?

If the answer is Yes, which of the “Ways and Means” houses are they consulting? Is there any obligation that they have to meet? What is it? Is it for free?

Is it true that some powerful spiritualist who used to have a big house (spiritual house) in some suburb in Accra, who was arrested, dragged to court and later jailed “freed” on suspicions of dealing in unorthodox spiritual practice is now practicing his craft in a town in the Eastern region?

If the answer is No, what is the catch or the attraction for their followers? Is it money? With the way campaigns are financed, what do you think is the real source of those funds? Is somebody financing these parties? Is there a secret pact contracted? Do some of the politicians have witchcraft? (Witchcraft will be discussed in detailed as a full subject soon).

Who was behind the series of murders of women, children and other people that occurred during the pre-and post election time in Ghana?

Are you paying attention to the emergence of many community conflicts in our country?

What is the main cause for all the unexplained fire outbreaks that take place on special national days in Ghana?

Amanfo, we want you to draw your conclusions from the above article and the questions raised. We believe that Ghanaians are getting informed from many sources (books, oral sources and the mass media) and we strongly hope that our people will move from simplistic acceptance of low end reasons for why certain unexplained events occur in Ghana. Remember, we are only stating our minds as patriotic citizens of Ghana.

What is yours?

Until we meet next time, we are singing Sonny Okuson's hit song " FIRE IN SOWETO"
Burning all my people.

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